"You evince a belief that this slut is more deserving of adornment than my good, faithful, Catholic wife and mother. That's disgusting."
I never said that this slut (well-chosen word) was deserving of adornment, nor that your wife is not. I said, meant, and implied nothing of the kind. I was comparing Ms Cowie's bling to the Crown Jewels, neither of which are justly earned or justly awarded. I realize it's probably a mere misunderstanding rooted in wrath, but you owe me an apology for that one.
My parents were as poor as yours, my grandparents on the L. side conceivably poorer--- and you're right, they did not go on Welfare, which they judged was for those who were unable to work. They were among the Earth's true nobility. That is not the scenario I was talking about.
I was talking about a person right now whose living consists of public benefits, and who, if they accepted a job, would experience an immediate and precipitous loss of income and home. It's frankly unreasonable to expect a person to do this voluntarily.
It might be imposed on them by a just change in public policy, which I would approve.
But for a person to voluntarily walk away from a life of ease to take up a life of struggle and labor for themselves and their children, is something it is unreasonable to expect of anyone but the rare mystic/saint. The last time thins kind of thing happened on an appreciable scale was probably during the Crusades of the 14th century.
"To rebuild the moral capital of society she should be eliminated."
You're not even going to offer her the "re-education through labor" camp? Good old laodong gaizao? In principle, your "final solution" is less enlightened than that of Mao Zedong in 1949.
I understand you're probably talking through wrath. Would you like to try again, and come up with something like a way, a policy, a path for Mandy and her children to a just society?
Or is feeling angry about it, and wishing their prompt demise, enough?
Individual monarchs come and go. Some good, some less so. The British haven't had a bad run recently. Within their constitutional form of government, the monarchs have led their country through terrible war and economic distress. Without the destabilization that occurred in Germany, France, or Italy. As you often do, you make the perfect the enemy of the good.
I owe you no apology, but you owe the royals one. They are not leeches. Cowe is. They may occasionally wear state jewels, but that's about the same as criticizing the Vatican for ownership of works of art. Get back to me when any of these folks claim the crown jewels as theirs to hock down at the local pawn shop. In the meantime, the cow Cowe has destroyed thousands of dollars of income permanently disfiguring herself.
“But for a person to voluntarily walk away from a life of ease to take up a life of struggle and labor for themselves and their children, is something it is unreasonable to expect of anyone but the rare mystic/saint.”
What about to refuse it in the first place?
I own my own businesses. There are good years and there are bad years. For a small businessman, a “bad year” often means actually losing money, and living off savings. I have had such years. I would have qualified for some form of welfare. Didn't take it. If I ever needed to, I wouldn't tell the world to "eff off." I'd fall to my knees to thank my benefactors, and then get on my own two feet and see what I had to do to regain my dignity and independence. And if I didn't, I'd be a looter. And I'd expect to be shot.
“less enlightened than that of Mao Zedong in 1949.”
Thank you. But flattery will get you nowhere.
The time for enlightenment is over. The time for payment is here.
“I understand you're probably talking through wrath.”
Although wrath, in this case is legitimate, that's not quite it.
It's what Flannery O'Connor said about the deaf and the loud, the neaarly-blind and the brightly-painted.
My son is a conservative. In some ways, he's more conservative than I am. But he likes Ross Doubthat. I don't blame him. Ross went to Harvard and edited the conservative magazine there. My son did the same for a couple of semesters. He feels a certain affinity to this very intelligent, very reasonable, fellow Crimson Catholic conservative.
But I tease my son. I call him a “Ross Doubthat conservative.” It isn't that they're not conservative enough. Or Catholic enough. It is that they are reasonable. And the enemy is not.
The left has shown how far one can go by refusing to be reasonable. It is unreasonable people - or at least, those who are perceived as unreasonable - who accomplish things. It is Ronald Reagan on the right, it is the anti-Christ Obama on the left, who advance their causes. Reasonable people argue about the shape of the negotiating table. Unreasonable people change the shape of society.
In a time when we still had some margin of safety in our social surplus, we might try to re-educate this common slut. We might try to rehabilitate it. If it showed any will to improve itself, perhaps in a better time there might be the opportunity.
But the barbarians are overrunning the city. There is nothing to do but to shoot them. It is not with wrath that I write that, but with sadness. As a society, we have failed. We have collectively failed to transmit our values to scum like this, we have failed to transmit any sort of basic civilizational decency to this creature and those like it. Now, the piper must be paid.
Right now, it's notional. Not much support for eliminating this filth just yet. But that is coming. The sooner it begins, the less blood there will be. The longer we wait, the deeper will be the excision of the cancer. And society will either excise the cancer, or the cancer will kill the west altogether, and the night that falls will make what I'm talking about look like a day at the beach.
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